On a median day, I estimate I consume 1,300 Wh through Claude Code—4,400 “typical queries” worth. (For those wondering, this is $15-20 of token spend on a typical day.)

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So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my use of coding agents, it’s something like running the dishwasher an extra time each day, keeping an extra refrigerator, or skipping one drive to the grocery store in favor of biking there. To me, this is very different than, in Benjamin Todd’s words, “a terrible reason to avoid” this level of AI use. These are the sorts of things that would make me think twice.